Towards An Application Lifecycle Management Framework
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Towards an Application Lifecycle Management Framework
One recent effort to support the development and management of products is the concept of Lifecycle Management. Lifecycle Management approaches promise more systematic and efficient ways to support the development and management of complex products. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) means the activity of managing a company's products across their lifecycles in the most effective way. The concept of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), on the other hand, indicates the coordination of activities and the management of artefacts (e.g., requirements, source code, test cases) during the software (SW) product's lifecycle. The definition and understanding of both these concepts have been driven by tool vendors. This thesis focuses on ALM and, especially, the development phase of the SW lifecycle. There are surprisingly few scientific efforts to define what ALM constitutes and scientifically reported experiences of the practical development and deployment of ALM solutions in an industrial context. ALM solutions tend to be complex, integrating different tools and practices that are used to produce and manage artefacts during the SW development lifecycle, and there is therefore an apparent need to support the development of such complex solutions for industrial contexts. This thesis presents an effort towards an ALM framework that can be used to document and analyse an organisation's ALM solution and find improvement ideas for it. This effort began in 2006 and iteratively constructed and demonstrated a proposal for an ALM framework during a series of case studies. The current version of the ALM framework contains six principal elements of ALM, a description of the relations between the elements and an ALM element mapping to the Global Software Development (GSD) patterns in order to reveal how ALM may support GSD. The evolving framework has been demonstrated in four industrial case studies and gradually refined based on the experiences gained from the studies. First, three case studies were carried out in the automation industry and a fourth case study in the telecommunications industry. This thesis presents the four case studies to the reader and explains the whole research process from the initial literature study, via four phases of constructing and demonstrating the evolving ALM framework, to a proposal for an ALM framework. Furthermore, the series of case studies revealed several experiences related to the application and improvement of an ALM solution in an industrial context. These experiences are also presented and discussed in this thesis.
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops
Author: Robert Meersman
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2009-10-26
Internet-based information systems, the second covering the large-scale in- gration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. Eachofthesefourconferencesencouragesresearcherstotreattheirrespective topics within a framework that incorporates jointly (a) theory, (b) conceptual design and development, and (c) applications, in particular case studies and industrial solutions. Following and expanding the model created in 2003, we again solicited and selected quality workshop proposals to complement the more “archival” nature of the main conferences with research results in a number of selected and more “avant-garde” areas related to the general topic of Web-based distributed c- puting. For instance, the so-called Semantic Web has given rise to several novel research areas combining linguistics, information systems technology, and ar- ?cial intelligence, such as the modeling of (legal) regulatory systems and the ubiquitous nature of their usage. We were glad to see that ten of our earlier s- cessful workshops (ADI, CAMS, EI2N, SWWS, ORM, OnToContent, MONET, SEMELS, COMBEK, IWSSA) re-appeared in 2008 with a second, third or even ?fth edition, sometimes by alliance with other newly emerging workshops, and that no fewer than three brand-new independent workshops could be selected from proposals and hosted: ISDE, ODIS and Beyond SAWSDL. Workshop - diences productively mingled with each other and with those of the main c- ferences, and there was considerable overlap in authors.
Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 4): The Case Studies
This book presents some twenty case studies, showing how companies in different industry sectors and of different sizes make advances in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Like the author’s previous volumes, this book provides a valuable resource for those wishing to learn about PLM and how to implement and apply it in their companies. Helping readers to · learn about implementing and benefiting from PLM; · learn about good PLM solutions and best practice; · improve their planning and decision-making abilities; · benefit from the lessons learned by the companies featured in the case studies; · proceed faster and further with PLM the book presents effective PLM solutions and best practices. At the same time, the case studies included demonstrate how different companies implement and benefit from PLM. Each case study is addressed in a separate chapter and details a different situation, enabling readers to put themselves in the situation and think through different actions and decisions. A valuable resource for PLM team managers and employees in engineering and manufacturing companies, the book is also of interest to researchers and students in industrial engineering fields.